work for Spirit or not?

[Jet_Dreamer]

Looking to get OUT of my current job. Give Spirit a go or run as fast as you can away?

 

[Beetle007]

Looking to get OUT of my current job. Give Spirit a go or run as fast as you can away?

If you have an interview then I would go and see what you think.

If you don't have an interview then this is a wasted post because I know lots of people with internal recs and lots of flight time that can't get an interview.

 

[700Flyer]

If you can't make up your mind, please don't. Stay where ever you are to clear your head and then proceed. You may even be able to claim your $200. The worst decisions are made when you feel you need to.

 

[pilotyip]

go for it, but don't burn any bridges on the way out. Aviation is a very small world

 

[troll565]

Looking to get OUT of my current job. Give Spirit a go or run as fast as you can away?

If you WANT to work there, yes. If you just need a job, no.

 

[Lake Alice]

Short of SWA there isn't a single airline that will give back to you what you put in therefore you take a job and use it for what it's worth.

 

[RideandDrive]

Does anyone know if the contract says you get the 72 hour guarantee or flat training pay until IOE?

 

[Mike man]

Does anyone know if the contract says you get the 72 hour guarantee or flat training pay until IOE?

D. Training Pay
1. New Hire Training Pay
During initial new hire training and prior to release to the line, the pilot
shall receive a monthly salary of $1,000 and monthly expenses of $750
prorated on a daily basis for a partial month. If, “through no fault of his
own,” a pilot does not finish initial new hire training or is not released to
the line within 90 days of his date of hire, he will be paid in accordance
with the provisions of Section 4.A and per diem as per Section 5.B. The
term “through no fault of the pilot’s own” shall not include actions by the
pilots such as: “No showing” for training events, “failures” that elongate
the process, additional training above the normal curricula, etc.

 

[RideandDrive]

Thanks!

 

[wanagethi]

You will also receive hotel during your entire training and a rental car.

 

[Mike man]

I meant to come back and add the hotel thing but the phone rang...anyway. I think the new classes will stay at a different hotel close to the new training center, which is really nice for any standards (and really, really flipping nice for spirit standards) word on the street is that the training center is booked solid starting in a few weeks and for the next few years (take that for what is is worth). Also the hotel is single occupancy and it used to be if you had your own car they would even reimburse you for mileage.

On a side note, how do other airlines handle Jepp revisions?

 

[Hovernut]

I'd surely go if called up!!

 

[crxpilot]

I meant to come back and add the hotel thing but the phone rang...anyway. I think the new classes will stay at a different hotel close to the new training center, which is really nice for any standards (and really, really flipping nice for spirit standards) word on the street is that the training center is booked solid starting in a few weeks and for the next few years (take that for what is is worth). Also the hotel is single occupancy and it used to be if you had your own car they would even reimburse you for mileage.

On a side note, how do other airlines handle Jepp revisions?

Allegiant has two sets of Jepps assigned to each plane. The revisions are done by our tech pubs dept and rotated thru the planes when needed.

 

[I'Zheet M'Drarz]

Did Spirit start a class on Monday?

 

[Mike man]

yes...and the schedule shows one more in September, two in October and one in November.

 

[I'Zheet M'Drarz]

Any idea of what it takes to get an interview? What does it take to be considered competitive?

 

[RideandDrive]

Does anyone know the official stance on resigning seniority numbers while on furlough or LOA?

 

[Flyingdude]

I think the new classes will stay at a different hotel close to the new training center, which is really nice for any standards (and really, really flipping nice for spirit standards) word on the street is that the training center is booked solid starting in a few weeks and for the next few years (take that for what is is worth).

New training center? Please tell me that they built a new one since 2008. If you are refering to the same training center in Miramar that was there in 2008, you clearly have never been to a REAL training center. The place I remember was a joke. Nice for any standards, really, where have you worked before. If infact their is a new training center since 2008, then disregard what I said above. However, if it is the same place, some perspective is needed.

 

[RideandDrive]

There is a new location at the FLL airport that just opened.

 

[Mike man]

New training center? Please tell me that they built a new one since 2008. If you are refering to the same training center in Miramar that was there in 2008, you clearly have never been to a REAL training center. The place I remember was a joke. Nice for any standards, really, where have you worked before. If infact their is a new training center since 2008, then disregard what I said above. However, if it is the same place, some perspective is needed.

wtf? who crapped in your Wheaties today?

I'm not sure where you learned to read, where did you go to school? But new, actually means new...and since they closed the crappy building that housed a few tables you could write on back in 2008 and moved some of the training in to a snack/break room and other training off site, I was trying to point out that yes this new training center was in fact NEW and really nice.

If you must know I have received training in the past at Flight Safety and I would say that the NEW (that is that fancy word again) training center is every bit as nice as a Flight Safety--except for the parking, it is a little far to walk in August in Florida.